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Wolfire Games’ US antitrust claims over Valve’s 30 percent commission fee, MFN policy survive dismissal

By Michael Acton ( May 6, 2022, 22:24 GMT | Insight) -- Wolfire Games has plausibly alleged that developers suffer injury from a 30 percent commission fee charged to game publishers on Valve’s Steam gaming platform, a US judge ruled today. While Judge John C. Coughenour definitively threw out claims that Valve illegally ties its online store with its gaming platform, he also concluded that Wolfire plausibly alleged the company uses anticompetitive most-favored-nation clauses to prop up its market dominance. Wolfire Games has plausibly alleged that developers suffer injury from the 30 percent commission fee charged to game publishers on Valve’s Steam gaming platform, a US judge in Washington state ruled today....

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